Illuminated sign



W. F. HERTERICH AND W. G. NEUB'ECK.

ILLUMINATED SIGN.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I8, 192;.

Patented Feb. 14, .1922.

MJMMN INVENTORZL PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. HERTERICH AND W'ALTER G. NEUBECK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ILLUMINATED SIGN.

Specification'of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

Application filed February 18, 1921. Serial No. 445,982.

To all 10 ham itma z concur-1 L Be it known that we, VILLIAH F. Hnnrrn- RICH and W ALTER Gr. NEUBECK, citizens of the United States, and residents of New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Illuminated Signs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to illuminated signs.

The object of the invention is to provide a sign of such type and character which is novel in constructioi'). and which when in use produces novel and highly artistic effects.

A further object of the invention is to provide a transparent illuminated exhibition device especially adapted for use in connection with, letters, figures, or irregular shapes, symbols, designs, etc., which is simple in structure, economical of manufacture, and durable in use.

Further objects of the invention will appear more fully hereinafter.

The invention consists in the construction, combination, location and relative arrangement of parts, all as will be more fully hereinafter set forth as shown by the accompanying drawings, and finally pointed out by the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of a letter E formed as a transparent sign member and embodying our in vention.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same.

Figure 8 is a fragmentary view showing a modified form of our invention.

Figures 4 and 5 show still further modified fragmentary constructions embodying our invention. 7

The same part is designated by the same reference numeral wherever it throughout the several views.

It is among the special purposes of our present invention to form the sign, symbol, letter, figure, design, etc, which it is desired to exhibit, through the medium of a source of light penetrating the transparency thereof, of a plurality of transparent members. For example, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, we utilize a plurality of relatively small cylinders of glass. The cylinders may vary in diameter in accordance with the effect desired to be produced, that is, they may be of small diameter as shown in Figure 1, or of comparatively large diameter, as shown in Figure 5, or may be of minute diameter, as required, it being recognized that glass cyloccurs inders of exceedingly minute diameter, as well asglass cylinders of large diameter and intermediate sizes of cylinders are available in the open market today. Furthermore, the glass cylinders in this form of our invention may be arranged in any desired manner. For example, they may be arranged regularly in vertical and transverse alignment with each other, as illustrated in Figure l, or they may be arranged in rows in staggored relation to each other, as shown in Figure 5, or they may be arranged in any haphazard manner, according to the effectdesired.

Similarly the length of the cylinders may be of any value. It is understood that the light passes through the longitudinal axis of the cylinders to give the effect of the novel illuminated sign. It will also be obvious that while we find at the present time that glass cylinders are the most advantageous to use for this purpose, we do not desire to be limited in this respect as any transparent or semi-transparent material may be used and we wish it to be understood that where we hereinafter refer to a. transparent member we desire to include by that term any member through which light rays emanate. Further, We do not desire to be limited to glass cylinders for these transparent members as it is obvious that triangles of any suitable size, shape, or formation may be utilized, as shown in Figure l, or any multisided type of transparent member, as shown in Figure 3, and, similarly, any combination of the various types, regular or irregular, may be utilized.

The letter, design, symbol, figure, or the like, formed of these transparent members may be bound together in any suitable way, for example, the cylinders may be glued together as illustrated in Figures 1, 2, and i, or the peripheral edge of the symbol, etc, may be bound by a binder, as illustrated. in Figures 3 and 5, or any combination of binding and adhesive may be utilized.

It will be readily appreciated from the foregoing description that a sign constructed in accordance with our invention presents an exceedingly novel appearance in that it gives the face of the transparent portion of the sign the appearance of multitudinous jewels and this efl'ect may be greatly enhanced by utilizing less transparent material between the respective transparent elements. One means of securing this is to utilize a glue, for example, which in addition to serving as a binder for the respective elements, seres to enhance the artistic effect of the sign. Also exceedingly artistic effects may be obtained by using colored transparent material, the color utilized being constant throughout the sign or varied as artisticness or effect is desired by utilizing varied colored transparent elements, either of constant color, or varied color.

lllany other modifications and changes in detail may he made Without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention as shown in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

Therefore, What We claim as new and useful and of our own invention, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An illuminated sign structure comprising a multitude of preformed transparent elements closely bound together in the desired shape, said elements being of greater axial length than transverse length and arranged for having the raysof light passing parallel through the axial lengths.

2. An illustrated sign structure comprising a plurality of preformed transparent members bound together by an adhesive material to form a substantially rigid unit of the desired shape and being constructed and arranged to pass rays of light longitudinally therethrough.

3. An illuminated sign structure comprising a plurality of glass members, the diameter of which is small relative to the longitudinal axis thereof and bound together by an adhesive material to form a substantially rigid unit of the desired shape and positioned relative to each other so that the light passes through said members longitudinally.

el. Au illuminated sign structure comprising a plurality of transparent elements closely bound together into a desired shape, and so positioned relative to each other that the light passes through said members longitudinally.

An illuminated sign structure comprising a multitude of relatively long glass members closely combined together into side by side arrangement into a desired shape so that the light passes longitudinally through all of said members.

6. An illuminated sign arrangement comprising a plurality of glass cylinders positioned side by side relative to each other and bound into a desired shape so that the light passes parallelly through ill of said members longitudinally thereof.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands on this 9th dayof February, A. 1)., 1921.

WILLIAM F. HERTERIGH. WALTER e. NEUBEOK. 

